Mushi-shi - s1e2 - The Light of the Eyelid

Mushi-shi

There's no effective way to describe the mushi – They simply are. They simply have been since life first began. As with many other things, man has forgotten how to see. And just as it's difficult to describe the feel or texture of an object to someone who's never held it in his own hands, to one who's never seen the mushi…

A young girl has been locked away by her family, for fear of a disease without cause or cure. Her cousin refuses to abandon the sightless youth to her fate, worried that she will soon lose the light within as well. Drawn by the scandal of medical mystery like a moth to a flame, Ginko arrives as loyalty allows the contagion to spread. Too much time spent between the worlds, too little now left to save the girl. When fascination of the mushi invited them in across the threshold, the cure must be found in the curse.